beginner's painting - what did your figures look like?

GreenDragonInn · **Joined:** Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:43 am **Posts:** 56

Sorry if this is the wrong thread, admins feel free to move to another part of the forum if you like.

Post pics of your first models!!!
I dont have any pictures at the moment but Ill try and get some up soon. My WoMT have the worsed faces ever, just a smudge of a flesh colour, the armour is on all of them looks different, some are to shiny others are to dark. I think ill just brush that army to the side and start a new one

Anyone els have these problems of your figures looking bad, or atleast not that good.

Hashut's Blessing · **Joined:** Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:41 pm **Posts:** 1279

Not got pics to hand, but might have a model or two that I've not repainted from back in the day (11ish years ago

). 6th edition Chaos Warriors were simply mithril silver/chainmail (not consistent

) on random limbs, the rest black, the weapons boltgun metal and then smear red across them as major blood splatter. Goblin green bases too!

GreenDragonInn · **Joined:** Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:43 am **Posts:** 56

My god...Ive about 70% complete my Captain of Minas Tirith and he looks worse then the standard paint scheme for my WoMT and I used highlights and everything!!!!

Gaming is fun, painting for me is just a chore..

valpas · **Posted:** Wed Sep 22, 2010 6:27 am

My first ones:

I painted these when the FotR came out, 2001 I think it was. The Man of Gondor (as they were called then) was the first, the goblin second and the elf third.

Actually the very first was a High Elf warrior whose armour I painted solid yellow. Looks like a Swedish ice-hockey player... I should paint three blue crowns on the chest. :-)

-- Pasi

GreenDragonInn · **Joined:** Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:43 am **Posts:** 56

cheers Valpas, it doesn't make me feel so bad now considering my gondor army is practically my first serious painting...
I would have actually said the elf in the middle is pretty good

Drumstick · **Joined:** Sat Sep 19, 2009 8:57 am **Posts:** 1223

hey that's not half bad for your firsts, mine were.. .. just a lick of paint to be honest. Don't think I have any pics tho

PowerofWill · **Posted:** Wed Oct 06, 2010 10:36 pm

I didn't do a whole lot of painting when I first started, but when I did, they usually looked pretty much the same as Valpas'. I thought mine looked really good, that is, until I saw my brothers painted mini's :lol:

GreenDragonInn · **Joined:** Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:43 am **Posts:** 56

Cheers PowerofWill - I too took no notice when I first started painting, got a little older and saw other peopls paint jobs.

PowerofWill · **Posted:** Sun Nov 28, 2010 11:32 pm

Actually, I do have a pic of my very first mini's, and they turned out worse than Valpas', but that might be because of the mini's, or(most likely) because I was using horrible paints. But even if I did use better paints, I doubt they would've been much better.

agincourt777 · **Joined:** Sun Mar 07, 2010 3:27 pm **Posts:** 198

here's my first EVER mini which I spent time on individually next to a more recent batch painted version.

GreenDragonInn · **Joined:** Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:43 am **Posts:** 56

hehe I really like the batch painted one - I think the first mini decided to jump in the mud

Awesome

gambit025 · **Posted:** Sat Dec 04, 2010 3:41 pm

My first set of minis I painted were some Warrior of Minas Tirith, painted with extremely thick layers of paint. Unfortunatly I don't have them anymore, but trust me - they were bad! :rofl:

BlackReaper · **Posted:** Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:02 am

GreenDragonInn · **Joined:** Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:43 am **Posts:** 56

silvery

Keep em coming

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